How Much Rock?
Here's a critter we'd never seen until we moved to Oregon. Now we keep an eye out for them whenever we get off the parkway at Colorado, or visit the Old Mill. Today by the offramp we saw three of these guys, and four or five deer. Then we had dinner at The Summit with some other critters. 
Posted by Dave Blog Tag: Chatter
Posted 5/01/2008 12:00:00 AM
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On 5/01/2008 1:27 AM, 
tksinclair said...
On 5/01/2008 9:23 AM, pril said...
On 5/01/2008 11:18 AM, dkgoodman said...
On 5/01/2008 9:05 PM, tksinclair said...
On 5/02/2008 4:22 PM, dkgoodman said...
5 Comments:
Looks like a Marmutt (sp?)
there's a little colony of these guys that lives on a grassy area near OIT in Klamath Falls. You almost never see them as roadkill on the highway there, either. I like them. Rockchucks, someone told me they were called.
Wikipedia calls them a yellow-bellied marmot but folks around here call them rock chucks.
They hibernate in winter. We just started seeing them again a few weeks ago.
How much rock could a rock chuck chuck if a rock chuck could chuck rock? :)
Would you believe we saw a yellow-bellies marmot in the Sequoia's last summer! My husband came face to face with one. I'm impressed I knew what it was! Really. I'm really impressed! (Well, I didn't say I was smart! Marmutt - Marmot!?)
It's not like you're a biologist or anything. (Are you?) You can be forgiven for not remembering the spelling. Maybe that's why we just call 'em rock chucks. :)
There's a story about an expert ichthyologist who worried about how much storage his brain had. Every time he was introduced to someone and learned their name, he sighed and said, "There goes another fish I've forgotten the name of."
I feel the same way myself. It's disturbing how much useless knowledge I have crammed in this cranium, yet I can't remember where I left my keys.
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